New V&A East site to offer dramatic 360-degree viewing spaces
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The product of fanatically particular and painstakingly drawn out-process, cognac has a lofty, luxury status in the world of drink. Cellar master Baptiste Loiseau gives a lesson in this most celestial of spirits
Wanda Ferragamo obituary
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Brutalist market: flats at London’s Centre Point taken off market
Half of tower’s 82 luxury flats remain unsold as Brexit jitters and tax rises bring ‘silly offers’
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 – from messy misery to a dash of magic
Firehoses, grenades and fibreglass sombreros feature in a shortlist that takes in Michael Dean’s evocation of economic despair and Cerith Wyn Evans’s sublime floating instrument
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